The following Master dissertation presents a reflection about the teaching of bowed string instruments in group classes with focus on violin. Its analysis is based on the critique of comparative main methods of string class teaching. The objective is to elaborate a new methodology for string classes based on Brazilian folk music melodies. The first part of this work comprehends a historical analysis of the beginnings of string class teaching in the USA and England and at the same time it studies part of Brazilian music history; the part that concerns the beginning of collective string teaching due to the advent of Orff-like teaching of songs in the public schools under the direction of Heitor Villa-Lobos. The second part critiques and compares both the main methods of group teaching and the programmatic contents of the most important schools where they are applied. In addition, three Master research theses are analyzed with views on their technical content of their teaching methods. This analysis serves as a sample of current methods. This work concludes with a proposal of a new methodology for violin string class teaching with basis on the usage of Brazilian folk melodies, taken from the Guia Prático do Canto Orfeônico by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

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